doing some research for enhabiten 2012

vintage textile collection here.

found via rikkianne's pinterest.  

her blog here.

i LOVE this.

The Summer Day

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?

-mary oliver

i've been thinking about summer today as i haul firewood and shovel snow.

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on another note, i'm pretty into this chair pad i made with the old rag balls i've been talking about:

and now i'm going to go make some brinner.  olivia thinks it should be called dinfast.  ridiculous, i say.  but you can't argue with that girl and win.

blog it forward, baby

it's my turn to share with you what inspires me!

thanks to eklektick for the intro and please be sure to check out

evenstar-art and her blog it forward post tomorrow.

thanks to victoria at sfgirlbybay for her hard work on this project.

you can read more about it here.

and so the following are the things currently on my mind:


vintage textiles and hand stitching

eccentric and personal interiors


vintage utilitarian objects

books

i have quite a few. i love non-fiction but my heart is with fiction. when i am lost in a good book there is nowhere else i'd rather be. historical novels are a favorite.

landscape and landscape paintings

small remote towns in far away places

homesteading and self-sufficiency

my first introduction to these ideas was in my early 20s and began with reading about

helen and scott nearing and living the good life.

good music

i regularly post music videos on my blog. perhaps to the consternation of my readers.

lucky for them and unfortunately for me we are not in the same room with me saying,

no, you HAVE to listen to this.

humor

funny is pretty important to me. for instance, i spent a good 15 minutes laughing hard over this list this morning.

and last but not least, since launching this little blog i am always inspired by the lovely lovers who bother to stop in and read it. man i love you. like, big fat love.
xo to eternity,
liane

*image sources: paneurasianbiketrip, forever summer, the pagan eye, visit indiana county, studio schmookie